Senior Research Scientist. Netflix, Los Gatos, CA - 2018 - present

Ph.D. in Computer Science  - Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), University of Central Florida - 2018

M.Sc.  in Computer Science - Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), University of Central Florida - 2016

B.Sc.  in Electrical Engineering - Sharif University of Technology - 2013

• Automated Machine Learning Research via Agentic Exploration with Human Oversight. ICLR 2025 Agentic AI for Scientific Discovery

• Area Chair, ICLR 2025 Workshop on XAI4Science

• Preprint : Towards Automated Machine Learning Research Sept-2024.

• Articles on our uncertainty quantification work published in MIT News, MIT MECHE

• Quantifying Representation Reliability in Self-supervised Learning Models - UAI 2024 (link)

• LLM2Loss: Leveraging Language Models for Explainable Model Diagnostics - ICML 2023. Neural Conversational AI Workshop. (link)

• Representation Reliability and Its Impact on Downstream Tasks - RSS 2023 Workshop on Safe Autonomy 2023 (link)

• Invited talk on "Estimating Robustness using Proxies": Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). May 2023. (link)

• Embedding Reliability: On the Predictability of Downstream Performance - Neurips 2022 AI-Safety (link)

• Improving Identity-Robustness for Face Models - ICML 2023. Workshop on Spurious Correlations, Invariance, and Stability. (link)

• Estimating Structural Disparities for Face Models - CVPR 2022 (link)

• Character-focused Video Thumbnail Retrieval - ICML 2020 ML4MD (link)

• Invited talk on "Relating First-person and Third-person Vision": Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). July 2018.

• Paper Accepted to European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018)

  • Integrating Egocentric Videos in Top-view Surveillance Videos: Joint Identification and Temporal Alignment

• Paper published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) journal: 

  • "An Exocentric Look at Egocentric Actions".[PDF|BibTeX]

• Paper published in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) journal: 

  • "Egocentric Meets Top-view". [PDF|BibTeX]

• Robotics Intern at iRobot, Pasadena, CA - Summer 2016.

• Paper published in European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'16): 

  • "Ego2Top: Matching Viewers in Egocentric and Top-view Videos" [ PDF | Project Page | Dataset |BibTeX]

• Paper published in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'15): 

  • "Geo-semantic Segmentation" [ PDF | Project Page | Image Dataset | GIS Dataset | Code |BibTeX]

• Paper published in European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'14): 

  • "GIS-Assisted Object Detection and Geospatial Localization " [ PDF | Project Page | DPM Models | GIS Dataset | DPM Models |BibTeX]

• Paper published in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'14): 

  • "Robust Refinement of GPS-Tags using Random Walks with an Adaptive Damping Factor"[ PDF | Project Page | Video Spotlight  | Video Presentation | Code|BibTeX]